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Category: Teacher sex abuse

June 30, 2020

Tony Brown Sr., House Of Montessori Education Day Care employee charged with molesting two children under age 10

Tony Brown Sr., 63, has been charged with statutory sodomy and five counts of child molestation after police reported that he molested two girls under the age of 10 at House Of Montessori Education, a south St. Louis day care facility where he was employed. Brown was working at the day care at 7814 South Broadway when he allegedly molested the girls. Brown inappropriately touched one of the girls and forced her to touch him inappropriately over his clothing, according to the probable cause statement. He touched another girl inappropriately over her clothing on the same day as […]

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June 30, 2020

Priest and Catholic school Teacher accused of repeatedly molesting young girl when she was just 5 years old

Sex abuse attorney Jeff Herman announces the filing of a lawsuit, under the Child Victims Act, against the DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN and ST. BENEDICT JOSEPH LABRE PARISH regarding a teacher who allegedly raped a kindergarten student when she was just 5 years old back in 1983. The victim, now age 42, remains anonymous and known as C.L., said that when she was just 5 years old, she was brought by her teacher and the Priest to a private teachers lounge, told to get undressed, and both men raped her. This alleged abuse took place on over several occasions until […]

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June 18, 2020

Former Edison High School student claims teacher abused him in the 1980’s

Under the Child Victims Act, a former Edison High School student is suing The township Board of Education claiming he was sexually abused by a teacher in the 1980s. The suit, filed in Superior Court last week, alleges that the school board “failed to take reasonable steps” to protect the student from the abuse. ITh suit claims that the shop teacher Frederick Burkley, from 1983 to 1985, “groomed” the student “to gain his trust and to obtain control over him” as part of a plan to sexually molest and abuse him. Burkley, who has since died, also served as […]

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June 16, 2020

Prestigious NY Private School facing lawsuit claiming decades old sex abuse of students by teacher

At $50,000 year tuition, New York’s Saint David’s School in Manhattan is considered a highly prestigious all-boys private school. However, it now faces allegations by former students of unreported sex abuse by teachers spanning decades. Peter Defeo III, now 59, claims that 50 years ago he was abused repeatedly by teacher Robert Ludlow, who is now deceased. He claims that he was abused as young as 8 years old. He also claims that a female administrator witnessed the crime, literally looked the other way and did nothing to stop it. The sexual abuse continued for another two years. Peter […]

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June 10, 2020

Salamanca Teacher accused of sexually abusing two students

Now that courts are opening again, two lawsuits have been filed by two former students of the Salamanca City School District. The law suits have been filed in state Supreme Court in Cattaraugus County alleging a teacher sexually abused them. The students claims against the same teacher come ten years apart from one another. sexual abuse of two students by the same teacher almost 10 years apart. The plaintiff remained anonymous and claimed that David Bemus, a now retired teacher at the Jefferson Street School of the Salamanca City School District, allegedly had sexual contact with a 10-year-old child […]

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June 9, 2020

High School Teacher arrested for alleged child sex abuse of student

Stephen E. Raught, a teacher at Owen J. Roberts High School in Chester county has been charged with sexually assaulting a female student in the school. School administrators allegedly have known about his prior record of inappropriate behavior with students and did not take action. There is an ongoing investigation into how the school board mishandled the report of the teachers inappropriate behavior with students in the past. As a result of this teacher’s arrest the school has received a number of complaints from other students and reports of prior disclosures of possible abuse from students that may not […]

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May 11, 2020

Former tutor admits to having sexual relationship with teenager while she was his student

A former member of the faculty of Natrona County School District has admitted to sexually abusing a girl back in July 2016.The accused, Jason G. Waugaman, has pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse of a minor in Natrona County District Court via video conference since he could not appear in person due to COVID-19 restrictions. Waugaman accepted a plea agreement to serve six to twelve years in prison even though two second degree sexual abuse of a minor charges have been dropped. Waugaman was 33-years-old and the victim was a teenager at the time the sexual abuse took place. […]

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April 28, 2020

Elementary school teacher arrested for sexual misconduct with students under age 7

Jonathan Clayton, 27, a Stockholm supply teacher has been sentenced to eight and a half years for sexually assaulting his pupils. Clayton, a teacher at a North Yorkshire primary school was found guilty of 13 sexual assaults on six girls, ages 7-11. He claims that he only helped them get dressed – even though they could do it themselves – in addition to letting them sit on his knee and hugging them . He was given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order which prohibits him from having any contact with girls under 18 or living or staying with anyone […]

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